Border & Immigration News
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The Inhumanity of Biden’s Border Policies
The situation at our southern border negatively affects the lives of illegal immigrants as well as U.S. citizens. Although residents of other countries always have faced challenges in their journey to become American citizens, the Biden administration’s policies have exacerbated human and drug trafficking. Migrants face several challenges on their trip to the U.S.-Mexico…Jacquelyn Kilcommons -
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What We Know About Unaccompanied Children Arriving at Southern Border
A 10-year-old girl from Honduras arrived at the southern border unaccompanied by adults. She told Sheena Rodriguez that she hoped to stay in America, and wanted to “color and get to know my father.” The Honduras girl is like so many other unaccompanied alien children, says Rodriguez, founder and president of Alliance for a Safe…Virginia Allen -
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Tony the Bouncer at Club America: A Parable of Title 42 and Border Security
Immigration law is a maze of statute, regulation, and presidential whim. Explaining things like immigration parole, Title 42, and asylum is difficult. Here’s a parable to explain Title 42, a public health measure that enabled the quick removal of illegal immigrants, but that is set to expire. Imagine the hottest nightspot in town, Club America….Simon Hankinson -
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Biden’s 1,500 Troops Sent to Southern Border Are a ‘Welcome Wagon,’ Retired Border Patrol Agent Says
“It’s a welcome wagon,” a retired Border Patrol agent says of the 1,500 active-duty troops the Biden administration is sending to the southern border ahead of the expiration of Title 42 on May 11. The troops will be helping with “non-law enforcement duties,” according to the Homeland Security Department, but Frank Lopez says that…Virginia Allen -
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The 6 Mistakes of Biden’s Emergency Immigration Plan
You know that feeling on a Wednesday night when you’ve reheated the chili you made on Sunday for the third time and you can’t face it again so you throw it away and order take-out? That’s how I felt watching Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas pitch the latest…Simon Hankinson -
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Dead Migrants, Dead Americans: Pro-Border Security Rally Highlights Scourge of Cartels and Fentanyl
A photo of a skeleton laying in the Texas dirt flashed across the screen, followed by another, and another – all images of the remains of migrants who died from exhaustion or other causes after entering America illegally. “[President] Joe Biden is responsible for more dead people on the Texas border than any time in…Virginia Allen -
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House to Vote on Border Security Bill Same Week Title 42 Expires
Lawmakers have the opportunity to pass what House Majority Leader Steve Scalise says he believes is the “strongest border security package that Congress has ever taken up.” What’s more, Scalise said, the plan is for the House to vote on the legislation next month, when a public health measure known as Title 42 is…Virginia Allen -
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Rep. Chip Roy’s Prescription to Secure Border: Use Power of Purse to ‘Bring President to His Knees’
If America’s southern border is to be secured, Congress must “use the power of the purse to bring the president to his knees and [make him] sit at the table,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, says. President Joe Biden’s border policies are enriching China and harming the American people, Roy argues. “The fact of the matter…Virginia Allen -
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Biden Plan for Health Care for ‘Dreamers’ Called ‘Back-Door Way to Give Taxpayer Subsidies to Illegal Aliens’
President Joe Biden is proposing a plan for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to receive subsidized health care through Obamacare and Medicaid. If the plan is finalized, illegal aliens who were brought to America as children will be eligible for the health care programs. “[M]y administration is announcing our plan to…Virginia Allen -
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GOP Lawmakers Move Forward on Bill to Secure Border
A group of House Republicans say they have a plan to secure America’s southern border, the Border Security and Enforcement Act of 2023. The bill, when finalized, would grant the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security authority to suspend entry of inadmissible aliens into the U.S. in full or in part for the purpose…Virginia Allen -
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Americans Will Rally in Texas, Demand Lawmakers Act to Secure Southern Border
Thousands of Americans are expected to gather April 29 in Austin, Texas, for a rally calling on state lawmakers to secure the southern border. “I actually expect this to be the biggest border event in the history of the country,” Mark Meckler, president of the Convention of States and a founder of the tea party…Virginia Allen -
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Fentanyl Being Mixed With Animal Tranquilizer, Spurring White House to Brand Xylazine ‘Emerging Threat’
The White House has labeled the use of the animal tranquilizer xylazine mixed with fentanyl “an emerging threat to the United States.” According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, “xylazine combined with fentanyl is being sold illicitly and is associated with significant and rapidly worsening negative health consequences, including fatal overdoses…Virginia Allen -
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New DC Law Allowing Illegal Aliens to Vote Is ‘Absolutely Insane,’ Former Immigration Judge Says
Illegal aliens now are allowed to vote in local elections held in the nation’s capital. Under a new law, anyone who qualifies as a permanent resident of the District of Columbia can cast a vote in races for mayor, D.C. Council, attorney general, and neighborhood advisory boards, regardless of U.S. citizenship status. Now, the Immigration…Virginia Allen -
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Deadly Fire at Migrant Detention Center Sober Reminder of Chaos at Southern Border
The fire at a migrant detention center in Mexico that claimed 38 lives is a sober reminder of the ongoing crisis along the southern border. About 70 men from South and Central America were being held in the migrant facility in Ciudad Juarez, just across the U.S.-Mexico border from El Paso, Texas, when the fire…Virginia Allen -
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Toll of Border Crisis on States: Florida
This is Part 3 in a series about the toll that the federal government’s intentional promotion of illegal immigration is taking on the states and their citizens. (Read Part 1 (national overview) here and Part 2 (Texas) here.) As the border crisis continues across every congressional district in the country, Florida is leading the charge to fight back…Erin Dwinell -
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70 Terrorist Watch List Encounters at Border. Real Numbers Are ‘Likely Much Higher,’ Congressman Says
The number of individuals on America’s terrorist watch list encountered on America’s borders is growing. Since the start of fiscal year 2023, Border Patrol has encountered 70 illegal aliens who are listed in the Terrorist Screening Database, also referred to as the terrorist watchlist, between ports of entry. The majority, 69, have been encountered on…Virginia Allen -
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Police Lt. Explains How Cartels Are Taking Advantage of Biden’s Open Border Policies
PINAL COUNTY, Ariz.—Worms crawled out of a small hole in the front of a carpet shoe that was used by a cartel member likely only weeks before. Dropping the piece of camouflage fabric the cartels use to make their tracks less visible to Border Patrol, I scanned the small parcel of desert that was covered…Virginia Allen -
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Biden’s ‘La Invitacion’ to Illegal Aliens Triggered Border Crisis, New Book Charges
In 2021, Todd Bensman stood on the edge of the Rio Grande river with a member of a drug cartel. Despite usually trying to avoid the cartels, Bensman found himself interviewing the man, who happened to be on vacation after guiding a group of illegal aliens into Texas. “He had his cocaine. He had a…Virginia Allen -
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Angry Federal Judge Orders Biden’s DHS: End Mass Parole of Illegal Aliens
In a scathing opinion on Wednesday that questions the credibility of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell II for the Northern District of Florida has ordered a stop to the Biden administration’s “Parole Plus Alternatives to Detention” (“Parole+ATD”) policy that has been illegally releasing hundreds of thousands of aliens…Hans von Spakovsky -
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Time to Declare War on Mexican Drug Cartels
The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should—in a just world—refocus American attention on the glaring problem of transnational drug cartels’ de facto control of large swaths of our perilously porous southern border. That the two Americans killed may have been mistaken by warring cartel clans…Josh Hammer